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[edit] Pharmacology
Hello Daevatgl, I'm very pleased to have a drug man in our midst. I've been doing a fair bit of pharmacology lately, but find I lack the relevant knowledge and reading material (apart from my old pharmacology textbook, which is out of date). Take a glance at thiazolidinedione and its subpages, and imatinib. User:Ksheka (a cardiologist) has introduced a "box" that holds an image of a drug's chemical structure and some other vital information (see acetaminophen and amiodarone for examples). Please drop a line! JFW | T@lk 09:40, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind comments. Frankly, I was wondering if you might be interesting in the WikiProject "Drugs". This project could definitely do with your input! JFW | T@lk 00:17, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You've done some great work on the macrolides (you'll see I've moved that page to the singular version). How do you draw molecules? I was trying to find a nice way of drawing some antifunghals (like nystatin and amphotericin B, which I wrote last week), but these big rings just don't come out well...
I'm thinking about writing up cromolyn and nedocromil, but first I need to find some good reference material. I've drawn the molecules already (I use OpenOffice.org).
The WikiProject has only started recently, and seems to lack direction at the moment. Perhaps we should consider some "article of the week" strategy, where we put lots of efforts in one particular drug (or class). My personal favourites are endocrine drugs (e.g. sulfonylurea). JFW | T@lk 21:13, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Hi. Just looked at your amphotericin and nystatin images. Are you sure they're correct? They seem to be identical, apart from the way you've drawn the hydroxy group at the top ???!??. I'll double-check when I've come back from my night shift... JFW | T@lk 19:50, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I havent read anything about amphotericin up to now... just about the nystatin: the image lacks stereo information. I've drawn another version for the german version of the page (which was just a little more than a stub, really, and probably still is - pity I didnt think of looking for the english version earlier) I'm a bit hazy about the details with pictures - how do you use the same picture in another language version of wikipedia? Btw, the drawing that where I copied my chemdraw-version from is [here] and [here] It's a bit difficult, as they show stereochemistry for different quartary atoms... There seems to by more than one Nystatin also (A1, A2 and A3)...
[edit] replaced your azithromycin drawing
Perhaps it was overly pedantic of me, but I replaced your azithromycin drawing with one that showed the directional bonds in the main lactone ring. --moof 23:59, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Your pethidine molecule is wrong! It has an ethyl ester group not a methyl!
[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week
WikiProject Pharmacology is currently organizing a new Collaboration of the Week program, designed to bring drug and medication related articles up to featured status. We're currently soliciting nominations and/or voting on nominations for the first WP:RxCOTW, to begin on September 5, 2007. Please stop by the Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week page to participate! Thanks! Dr. Cash 17:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week
Aspirin has been selected as this week's Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week! Please help us bring this article up to featured standards during the week. The goal is to nominate this at WP:FAC on September 10, 2007.
Also, please visitWP:RxCOTW to support other articles for the next COTW. Articles that have been nominated thus far include Doxorubicin, Paracetamol (in the lead with 4 support votes so far), Muscle relaxant, Ethanol, and Bufotenin.
In other news:
- Bupropion has been promoted to featured status on August 31, 2007.
- The Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology main page has been updated and overhauled, to make it easier to find things, as well as to highlight other goals and announcements for the project.
- Garrondo is asking for individuals to help review Therapies for multiple sclerosis, as he is considering nominating this article for GA status.
- Fvasconcellos notes that discussion is ongoing regarding the current wording of MEDMOS on including dosage information in drug articles. All input is welcome.
Dr. Cash 00:45, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Update
Here's a brief update in some of the recent developments of WikiProject Pharmacology!
- Aspirin has just completed its two week run as the first Collaboration of the Week! Many thanks to those editors that contributed; the article got a lot of good work accomplished, and in particular, much work was done in fixing up the history section. It's still not quite "done" yet (is a wikipedia article really ever done?), but after two weeks I think it's more important to push onwards with the development of the new collaboration of the week program. I will be fixing up Aspirin in the next few days and possibly nominating it for either GA or FA status.
- Muscle relaxant has been selected as the new Collaboration of the week until October 2, 2007! This article is currently rated as a "stub", so it's got quite a bit of work cut out for collaborators! Admittedly, featured status could be a long way off,... but still attainable! At the least, maybe we could at least get it up to meeting the Good article criteria? Please stop by the article and help improve it.
- Resveratrol, having recently achieved GA status on August 16, 2007, is now making a run for featured status. This is quite a fascinating compound. If you can, please stop by its discussion page and leave comments in support of it.
- Please remember that Wikipedia is not a forum for discussing or dispensing medical advice amongst users. Specifically, talk pages of articles should only be used to discuss improving the actual article in question. To help alleviate this situation, the template {{talkheader}} may be added to the top of talk pages, reminding users of the purpose of such pages. Additionally, unsigned comments and comments by anonymous users that are inappropriate may be removed from talk pages without being considered vandalism.
- There was an interesting article on ZDNet last week about Hewlett Packard licensing its patented microneedle technology used in common inkjet printers to be used in transdermal patches to deliver a time-controlled release of drugs to patients. This information could be added to articles such as route of administration or drug delivery.
You are receiving this message because you are listed as one of the participants of WikiProject Pharmacology.
Dr. Cash 05:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Update
Here are a few updates in the realm of WikiProject Pharmacology:
- The Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week has been changed to Collaboration of the Month, based on current participation levels. It is also more likely that articles collaborated on for one month are more likely to achieve featured quality than articles worked on for only a week or two.
- The current Collaboration of the Month for November is Receptor antagonist. Please take a look at that article and contribute to it if you get a chance. Ideally, the article should adhere to the featured article criteria.
- Therapies for multiple sclerosis is currently a featured article candidate. If you are familiar with the featured article criteria, please visit WP:FAC and review the article.
- Anabolic steroid is the wikiproject's newest Featured Article, having been promoted on October 8, 2007.
- Theobromine was delisted as a Good Article. The Peer review and GA reassessment discussions provide suggestions on improvement. Muscle relaxant was recently reviewed for Good Article status, but not promoted. Please see the full review full review here for details.
Dr. Cash 22:08, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Phenelzine.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Phenelzine.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. OsamaK 19:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
